Robot Law: Volume II

Author: Ryan Calo; A. Michael Froomkin, Thomasen Kristen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781800887299

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781783476725
Published In: April 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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An important sequel to the groundbreaking first edition, Robot Law: Volume II discusses the societal and economic transformations introduced by robotics. Editors Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin and Kristen Thomasen, alongside their contributing authors, explore the legal, ethical, and societal challenges that robotics and automated systems pose, investigating the intersection of law and policy in this area.

Multidisciplinary authors provide a field-defining examination of years of transformative law and robotics scholarship. Presenting insightful perspectives on the societal risks and opportunities of robotics and artificial intelligence, authors focus on the legal and policy questions that robots present as well as their disruption of existing legal regimes. The book also offers a range of legal, policy, and ethical interventions to help channel robotics and AI in the public interest. Furthermore the book opens an important dialogue, underscoring the need to confront and mitigate the potential communicative or expressive harm that could be caused by this technology.

This book is an essential resource for law professors, students, practitioners and jurists as well as engineering and AI students, academics and researchers of robotics. Policymakers will find the interventions posed in his book valuable for developing strategies to address the impacts of robotics and AI.

Preface xi

Robot rights? Let’s talk about human welfare instead 1

Abeba Birhane and Jelle van Dijk

Why the Moral Machine is a monster 17

Abby Everett Jaques

The presentation of machine in everyday life 35

Tim Hwang and Karen Levy

Unfair and deceptive robots 43

Woodrow Hartzog

Moral crumple zones: cautionary tales in human–robot interaction 83

Madeleine Clare Elish

The sum of all (un)intentions: reasonable foreseeability, platform algorithms, and emergent systemic harm to marginalized communities 106